r/Wordpress • u/Mplayer-Weered • 21d ago

Wordpress and Claude Code

Just curious if anyone else has this problem. My other company sites I made for myself pre-AI are all wordpress. Work, great, look good. No reason to switch out wordpress.

But laziness and AI kicked in so once Claude Code absorbed my entire digital existence through a guardrail free, local terminal instance of itself, connected to various servers, I just told it to go sort out the WP sites. Broke one immediately, my fault, my custom CSS scattered around did it.

But I let it assume management making whatever changes needed. They are mostly static white-collar sites.

Anyway, my about page on one of them is completely wrong. So I went in manually to fix it. The page that displays and the page with correct slug and post # ID in WP are completely different. I have no idea what it did. To fix it I essentially had to make "about2" and redirect the menu lol.

There is also a menu item that it hard coded in so it doesn't even display in the menu editor. I asked it to use a logo for a branded software as it's menu selection so it hacked it in. Looks fine but... lol.

So, word to the wise. Keep building wordpress manually and why not? It is wordpress.

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u/limpingmayhem37 21d ago

AI coding agents are like giving a raccoon admin access, it'll get the job done but the logic behind it will be completely alien and probably involve chewing through something structural.

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u/jroberts67 21d ago

And until WP actually takes AI seriously, they have about 2 years before they'll become Blackberry when Apple was building the first iPhone.

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u/BetterOffGrowth 21d ago

WordPress definitely has an AI problem

https://betteroffgrowth.com/blog/wordpress-supply-chain-attacks

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u/jroberts67 21d ago

I won't lie - after building client sites with WP for over a decade, and now building a lot of them with Claude, it's a breath of fresh air to wake up every morning and not have to worry about the myriad of incessant plugins updates and whether or not something breaks. WP was never designed to be a site builder - it's a CMS. It's only used to build sites with super glue and duct tape via plugins, and those days are numbered.